- The first monographic work to investigate Renaissance art and somaesthetics; - Presents a new framework for understanding Medici patronage and political power; - Offers a new methodology for investigating Renaissance embodiment About author(s): Allie Terry-Fritsch =================== Allie Terry-Fritsch is Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art History at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Her research focuses on the performative experience of art and architecture in fifteenth-century Florence, with a particular emphasis on the political significance of embodiment in the viewing process.
She has published widely on audiences for Medici-sponsored works by Fra Angelico, Benozzo Gozzoli, Donatello, and others, and is editor of Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Ashgate/Routledge, 2012).
Her next book project on Fra Angelico, Cosimo de'Medici, and the Library of San Marco recently won the National Endowment for Humanities prize for a Summer Stipend.
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Amsterdam University Press Somaesthetic experience and the viewer in medicean florence: renaissance art and political persuasion, 1459-1580/allie terry-fritsch
